MS IN SOCIAL POLICYMS in Nonprofit Leadership

The MSSP program includes a social policy internship. Students have the opportunity to practice their policy analysis skills and gain work experience through the internship which generally will take place during the summer (mid-May to August), although the timing is flexible to some extent. Occasionally a student will complete the internship during the fall or the spring semester. The internship is structured on the basis of individual student interests and past social policy experience(s). Internships may occur anywhere in the United States or in another country, whichever is best suited to the learning objectives of the student. The internship must be policy related.

The NPL program includes a leadership practicum that is an integral part of the experiential learning for all NPL students, which builds upon core competencies and principles of leadership developed in the classroom. It consists of:

• a supervised mentoring and leadership development experience
• a partnership with the goal of learning about the organization and providing student support on various levels that can include strategic planning, succession planning, branding or marketing, development and philanthropy, or other targeted projects; and

For the dual degree, the MSSP internship can count for the leadership practicum as long as it meets the minimum practicum requirement of 180 hours and includes mentoring by an executive director or senior level leader at an appropriate organization.